For folks who are getting laid off, be open to 6 month to 1 year contractor jobs. Go for W2s if you can get it and assess 1099 taking your company’s Cobra. It is a good stop gap measure until things improve.

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I just got one. I was a little picky too on the rate and role. There are more out there than you might think.

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Look at your contract agreement but there shouldn’t be any reason why you can’t opt out.

ya but good luck getting those too 🙃

Where are you finding these contractor roles?

I opened up my linked in profile for contractor roles. I also found them on Dice, Career builder etc.

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Tech stack: Azure data factory, data lake, Azure databricks, Logic App, SQL, Pyspark (basic)


Offer:

Optum - 19.16 [16 Fixed + 15% variable + pf (offer letter is not received yet) ]

LTIMindtree: 21.50 (40 to 50k will be variable) Offer letter is not received yet

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